Payroll Specialist Lead - France
Remote.com
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Remote.com is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Remote</strong></h2>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.<br><br><span class="discussion-id-2f7cb4da-dab4-8068-a80f-001c50b2d808 suggestion-update notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.</span><br><br>We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!</span></div></div><h2><strong>What this job can offer you</strong></h2>
<p>This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Payroll Specialist Lead joining our <span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="1">Global Payroll Operations Team</span>.</p>
<h2><strong>What you bring</strong></h2>
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<li>End-to-end payroll processing in-house or within a payroll service provider</li>
<li>Knowledge of payroll best practices.</li>
<li>Proficient in using software tools like Excel / Google Suite.</li>
<li>An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities.</li>
<li>Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.</li>
<li>Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work.</li>
<li>You understand the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously.</li>
<li>Writes and speaks fluent English</li>
<li>It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus</li>
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<h2><strong>Key Responsibilities </strong></h2>
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<li>Act as a true subject matter expert for the country
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<li>Manage existing relationships with key stakeholder within Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, Engineers.</li>
<li>Process full end to end payroll in-house, statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments and compliance.</li>
<li>Ensure full data integrity and quality</li>
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<li>Payroll journals/reconciliations</li>
<li>Focus on KPIs and SLAs</li>
<li>Implement and improve processes</li>
<li>Mentor and support payroll specialists</li>
<li>Back up regional managers during times of absence</li>
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<p>This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Payroll Specialist Lead joining our <strong>Global Payroll Operations Team</strong>.</p>
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<h2><strong>Practicals</strong></h2>
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<li><strong>You'll report to:</strong> Manager, Global Payroll Operations.</li>
<li><strong>Team:</strong> Payroll</li>
<li><strong>Location</strong>: Anywhere in the World</li>
<li><strong>Start date</strong>: As soon as possible</li>
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<h2><strong>Application process</strong></h2>
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<li>(async) Profile review</li>
<li>Interview with recruiter</li>
<li>Interview with Team member</li>
<li>Interview with future manager</li>
<li>Bar Raiser Interview</li>
<li><a href="https://www.notion.so/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b">Prior employment verification check</a> </li>
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<p>#LI-DNP</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Remote's <a href="https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c">Total Rewards philosophy</a> is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair <span class="link-annotation-unknown-block-id-1691622878">equity</span><span class="discussion-level-1 discussion-id-f2a82bc4-09e4-4a71-ad93-755b1d26a690 notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="3"> pay </span>along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.</p>
<p>At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.<br><br>Our s
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Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
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About Remote.com
Remote.com is a company in the Accounting industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 36 open positions on Hirezar. View all Remote.com jobs →